WhisperBuddy AlternativesAudio Transcription Tools and other similar apps like WhisperBuddy

WhisperBuddy is described as 'Transcribe audio to text with AI precision, edit easily, and export in any format—all with complete privacy on your Mac' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WhisperBuddy for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, iPhone and Linux apps. The best WhisperBuddy alternative is Vibe Transcribe, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WhisperBuddy are Handy STT, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and OpenWispr.

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  1. Vibe Transcribe icon
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    Vibe is an auto transcription service that utilizes local language learning models (LLMs) or artificial intelligence to provide transcriptions for a wide range of languages. The service prioritizes user privacy by offering fully offline transcription, ensuring that no data ever...

    125 Vibe Transcribe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Voxtral icon
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    Voxtral models are state-of-the-art speech understanding models, which are available in two sizes — a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

    79 Voxtral alternatives

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    • Hugging Face
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  3. OpenWispr icon
     8 likes

    Voice-to-text dictation app with local Whisper models and OpenAI API. Privacy-first, cross-platform, global hotkey activated.

    22 OpenWispr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Spokenly icon
     13 likes

    Experience effortless voice-to-text on your Mac. Speak your thoughts, and let modern AI handle the typing—no hidden data collection, no distractions.

    71 Spokenly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  5. Whisper icon
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    Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

    130 Whisper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. TranscribeX icon
     8 likes

    TranscribeX is a powerful macOS app that converts your audio and video into accurate transcripts, translates them into over 100 languages, and helps you summarize or edit with advanced AI tools. Built with OpenAI Whisper and Nvidia Parakeet models, TranscribeX delivers accuracy...

    60 TranscribeX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. TalkNotes turns audio into structured notes, todos, flashcards, and transcripts using AI transcription in 100+ languages. Automatically capture lectures, meetings, or any speech into actionable text, ensuring tasks never get lost, with user-friendly accessibility for everyone.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Paraspeech icon
     6 likes

    Fast and 100% offline Speech to Text for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Moonshine AI icon
     12 likes

    Moonshine is a family of speech-to-text models optimized for fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) on resource-constrained devices. It is well-suited to real-time, on-device applications like live transcription and voice command recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
     
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